In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, and under much official pressure, Saudi’s promised to edit religious hate speech out of school textbooks. A dozen years later, many of the old books remain in classrooms.

A defense lawyer in the 9/11 war crimes trial tells a judge that a top prosecutor, asked if there had been improper influence by Defense Department or administration officials, refused to answer at least 25 times.

The accused 9/11 mastermind had skipped pretrial hearings at Guantánamo, but he made a surprise showing Wednesday afternoon and addressed the court. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had some counsel for the judge.